S-STEM Scholar Richardo Mendoza's Blog

Hello everyone. This semester has finally come to an end. It was a great semester, I got the chance to meet some really great professors and to become part of the STRAIN Scholars. Even though I didn't get a chance to work on a project of my own, I was able to see what the other students in the cohort were working on. This past Tuesday, I had the opportunity to be invited to one of Dr. Wang's meetings at ASU West to see what research projects she has going on. I was amazed at the projects she is currently working on. Not only that, but also I was amazed at the amount of collaboration that she does with other people to carry out the research. She is wonderful and I hope to join her team in conducting research when I transfer in the upcoming Spring.

This past week I searched for possible internships for the summer that have to do with math. I found several at the university. I'm applying in hopes to get at least one to do research. I also got some good news. A few weeks ago, at the ASU mixer, I met Dr. Wang a research professor and talked to me about her research projects. I found her research very interesting and decided to contact her afterwards, which I did. This past Tuesday she sent me an invitation to attend one of her meetings with her research students for me to get an idea of what it's like the research they do. I'm very excited to attend this meeting.